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Passionate About Second Language Acquisition: Meet Inkeri, English Teacher at 51Talk

EdNews Daily

In 2003-2004, I taught a first grade English immersion classroom for the City of Espoo’s Jalavapuisto elementary school. 51Talk’s use of Common Core in the well-prepared lessons will be familiar to teachers and will also provide the convenience of focusing solely on the instruction without the added curriculum planning.

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

The Hechinger Report

” Related: Can Common Core reading tests ever be fair? In 2003, in a rather extraordinary move, the state Department of Education mandated that every teacher preparation program in Mississippi require two courses in early literacy to cover what was in the National Reading Panel report. Kelly Butler was alarmed.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

His comments at the 2017 meeting were ineffective: The board had already approved the charter’s application before they opened up public comment, according to MCSA’s minutes. “We ohnson, a Little Rock native, came to the Arkansas side of the Delta in 2003 with Teach For America. We never really integrated.”. Habari gani!”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Breaking with longstanding tradition – through Democratic and Republican administrations – President Trump will not host a meeting with this year’s American Nobel laureates.” Via Education Week : “Even When States Revise Standards, the Core of the Common Core Remains.”

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

The Common Core. ” “Net neutrality,” a term coined in 2003 by Columbia University law professor Tim Wu, is the principle that all Internet traffic – regardless of source or content or user – should be treated equally. Political correctness. Foreign students. Government involvement in student loans.